This content requires Adobe Flash Player version
or later.
Either you do not have Adobe Flash Player installed,
or your version is too old,
or there is a problem with your Flash installation and we were unable to detect it.
Entering the Foreign Service in 1920, he became Second Secretary in 1923, the same year in which he was transferred to Constantinople. Having then served at Teheran 1925-28, he returned home to an appointment in the Foreign Office, where he was made First Secretary in 1930 and Acting Counsellor in 1940. At the end of the following year, he was appointed to take charge of the Mission to the Norwegian Government in London, in which capacity he was promoted Counsellor and awarded the C.M.G. (London Gazette 2 June 1943, refers).
Immediately after the War, Warner became Assistant Under-Secretary of State (Political) at the Foreign Office, prior to taking up his final appointment as H.M. Ambassador to Belgium 1951-55. He was created K.C.M.G. in the former year and G.B.E. on is retirement. Sir Christopher died in January 1957.